post-secondary

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After a six-year Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) campaign, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced an important policy benefiting Jewish students in elementary, secondary and post-secondary schools.

Over the next decade, the 20 occupations in the manufacturing industry that are expected to need the greatest number of workers will require at least some post-secondary education, according to the Manufacturing Institute, part of the National Association of Manufacturers.

According to the Center of Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University, a post-secondary certificate adds almost $117,000 in lifetime earnings over a high school diploma or those with no other degrees.

It may be no surprise that GED credential recipients, on average, see lower wages than those with high school diplomas, and that the latter group trails those with post-secondary education by 10 percent in earnings for every year of college completed.

Over the last two decades, the number of students attending post-secondary institutions soared from 14.3 million to 19.6 million; and the even more rapid expansion of private for-profit colleges and universities accommodated nearly 30 percent of that increase.